The old KLZ studios, an early “mobile unit” (ie. vintage car with an antenna attached), baby-faced Jim Redmond, Bertha Lynn and more are included. Fred & Fae, the reigning kidvid personalities of the ’60s, Bob Palmer, Carl Akers and other veterans of the station seem to be left out.

KLZ-TV Channel 7 went on the air as a CBS affiliate in 1953. It was the first Denver station to have a bureau in Washington, D.C., back when that was an economic possibility. It was the first Colorado station to get cameras inside a courtroom in 1955. Channel 7 carried one of the first global live satellite TV interviews, with President Dwight Eisenhower in the Channel 7 studio and Winston Churchill in England.

In the market’s 1995 affiliation swap, Channel 7 (then KMGH for owner McGraw-Hill) went from CBS to ABC. It remains an ABC affiliate, now owned by E.W. Scripps Company.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.